I might be crazy but I actually really liked My Life in the Bush of Ghosts by Tutuola. Alyson did make a great point in one of her posts that they are ghosts and the connection experience is weaker than the connection made with other authors, like Desani. Even though Tutuola uses fiction in a ghost word and there was just not enough time to go through each metaphor. With this novel I feel it could reach a wider audience and I would recommend it over some other novels from this semester. Not that they weren’t great, but if certain ones weren’t assigned, like Gandhi, I would never think to read them. I really got absorbed in the ghost world and it was busting through the seams with so many connections to colonialism. I saw he had written The Palm-Wine Drinkard in some of the other book versions. Maybe when this class is back on the market on the course schedule, I think more of Tutuola would be a great addition to the reading load. For me, I am totally going to shell out the green to get that version because I enjoyed Tutuola’s writing.
Friday, May 7, 2010
Final Post, I swear!
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You're not crazy! I really liked Tutuola's book too, and it was just crazy enough for me. It was readable, and entertaining, and the connections to colonialism were pretty simple to draw out (and you're right, there were so many of them!). Hatterr on the other hand is a little more difficult to deal with, and the purpose of some of the crazy things he does are hard to understand whereas Tutuola's make sense in their own crazy way.
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